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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 26, 1987
Local Briefs
Lawrence boy struck by car is still serious
A 10-year Lawrence boy who was struck by a car Feb 19 remained in serious condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., a hospital spokesman said.
Affirmative action director to resign
The boy, Earl Lawrence Neis III, 1636, Pennsylvania St., was knocked by a car at about 3 p.m. as he busked from school along East 19th Street.
Robbi Ferron, director of the University of Kansas' affirmative action office since 1983, has resigned effective June 30.
While at KU, Ferron, along with the Affirmative Action Board, revised the Affirmative Action Book and Affirmative Action Plan.
Ferron served on the boards of the Indian Center, Headquarters Inc. and the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism. She is a member of the Leadership Lawrence class of 1987
Ferron also worked for two years with the Haskell Centennial Committee and coordinated the work of KU faculty, staff and students.
Free Disney movie to show tomorrow
Lawrence children and their parents are invited to a free Walt Disney movie at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St. Either "The Gnomemobile," or "Pete's Dragon," both g-rated, will be shown.
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring the movie. For more information, call the center at 841-7777.
Society to accept resident nominees
The National Residence Hall Honorary is accepting nominations from hall directors, presidents, members of the All Scholarship Hall Council and the office of residential programs for 10 outstanding residents it will honor this year.
Deadline for nominations is today.
The residents chosen will be honored at a banquet to be held later this year. They will also be made permanent members of the honorary.
Post office to offer exam applications
Lawrence's main post office, 645 Vermont St., is offering applications for jobs that may be available in the future. Applicants will be considered for job testing, a prerequisite for the positions.
Post offices in 24 other Kansas towns also are offering the applications.
Applications may be picked up at the main post office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. this week and from 8 a.m. to Saturday from Feb. 27 to March 5.
The post office will consider all qualified applicants for employment.
Correction
Because of a photographer's error, Scott Morrow, assistant professor of dance and music, was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansan.
Campus and Area
By TODD COHEN
In the first poll of the Lawrence City Commission campaign, a Lawrence neighborhood association rejected yesterday the three incumbents and endorsed four challengers in Tuesday's primary.
Staff writer
The Old West Lawrence Association-Political Action Committee endorsed Dennis Constance, Mike Rundle, Henry Johns and Bob Schumat at a news conference called by Steve Owls, OWL president, and John Jennings, OWL-PAC chairman.
Ten candidates will compete in the primary for six spots on the April 7 general election ballot, in which voters will choose three new commissioners.
Jennings said the OWL-PAC's activism had forced the incumbents to address neighborhood concerns such as drainage, traffic and utilities. The incumbents are Howard Hill, David Longhurst and Ernest Angino.
"They've all changed their tune," Jennings said. "I think we've convinced them the neighborhoods have clout."
Lopes said, "There's no question we've had an effect."
OWL-PAC endorsed only those candidates who received more than 50 percent of the votes cast by the PAC's 53 members after the group's conference forum Sunday, Lopes said. The other candidates received about 30 percent or less of the vote.
Lopes said no votes were cast for some
"It's safe to say the incumbents did not receive a whole lot of OWL-PAC votes." Lopes
The other candidates are Carol Brown, Thomas Graves and Ellis Haven.
Lopes said OWL-PAC would distribute about 5,000 copies of two fliers to various Lawrence neighborhoods this weekend. One flier summarizes all 10 candidates' positions on zoning, business and neighborhood issues. The other focuses on the four endorsed candidates.
candidates, but he wouldn't identify them.
OWL-PAC decided against contributing money to the endorsed candidates and instead is providing volunteers and information, Lopes said.
more than half of the $3,000 they hoped to spend on candidates in the primary and general election campaigns.
Jennings said the committee had raised
Lopes said the endorsers were city-wide because OWL-PAC membership included residents of other neighborhoods, including other members of the leaders. Members pay $25 to join the PAC.
Schumm said the endorsement was significant because he was a businessman.
The OWL neighborhood extends from Kentucky to Michigan streets and from Sixth to Yale.
"It's very rewarding to me for a businessman to get the endorsement of a neighborhood association. I think it will have a definite impact," he said.
State might give KU extra money
Lawmakers review corridor system
Bv ROGER COREY
Staff writer
The University of Kansas will receive an additional $1 million for the 1989 fiscal year if the Kansas Legislature agrees to change the corridor financing system for state universities.
Last week the House Appropriations Committee voted to change the 6-year-old financing system. The new proposal has the full support of the KU administration, which has been working hard to revise the formula since it was established in 1981.
"Under the old formula, KU would have received about $800,000," said Deb Teetzer, director of institutional university should receive $7,1 million.
The corridor formula is used by the Legislature to adjust financing for the Regents universities based on enrollment increases or decreases.
With the old formula, the Legislature reviewed student enrollment at the universities every three years. Universities whose student enrollment had increased during that time by at least 1.5 percent were eligible for fee releases.
Universities whose student enrollment had dropped by 1.5 percent were not eligible for fee releases and the university generates the money for fee releases.
"The old corridor formula was inconsistent in the way it handled growth and decline in enrollment," said Tom Rawson, director of business and fiscal affairs for the Lawrence campus.
Under the old formula, a university with steadily increasing enrollment had to absorb the costs of that growth and therefore it received any additional money.
Members of the Enrollment Corridor Review Committee were Rauwberg,
Because this was happening at the University of Kansas, Chancellor Gene A. Budig appointed a committee to study the impact of the corridor formula on the University.
sity director of information resources; and Robert Adams, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences.
The committee compiled a report that was presented to the Council of Presidents in Topeka in December 1984.
After reviewing the report, the Council appointed a special task force to review the corridor formula and make recommendations for improving the system. Members of the Regents schools comprised the task force. Mann was the KU representative.
The task force recommended that the three-year review period be changed to one year. One reason for this change came when the task force asked Rawson to comment on how schools was under-financed in comparison to its peers. Rawson said,
He said the task force decided that it wasn't rational to expect an institution to absorb growth when it was under financed.
The task force also concluded that it wasn't realistic for an under-financed institution to surrender information when enrollment declined, Rawson said.
In May 1986, the Regents asked the Legislature to appoint a special interim committee to examine the corridor formula.
The committee recommended that:
- The three-year enrollment adjustment period be changed to one year.
- The enrollment increase required powered from 1.5 percent to 5 percent.
Under the new formula, a university would receive additional financing if its enrollment grew by 5 percent. The old formula required by the old formula.
■ The enrollment decline require
replacement to 2.5 percent
instead of 1 percent
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
Under this formula a university would not lose fees until its enrollment exceeds 50% of capacity.
Engineering school receives two new robots for research
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
The School of Engineering has expanded its robotics research this semester by adding new robots to its mechanical and electrical and computer engineering departments.
Charles Baer, retired professor of mechanical engineering, has donated a $3,000 HERO mobile robot to the electrical and computer department. General Motors has donated a $50,000 Intelidex robot to the mechanical department.
The electrical and computer department's new HERO robot will be used in a new intermediate computer programming course. The course is part of the department's new computer programming emphasis.
Gary Minden, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, said his students would program the robot to perform commands such as cruising the hallways in Learned Hall or perhaps delivering mail. The HERO has a visual system that will allow it to recognize objects in front of it.
"We hope to be able to program it to go from one office to any other office." Minden said.
Gary Minden, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, maneuvers HERO, the department's new mobile robot. Minden demonstrated some of HERO's capabilities Tuesday in Learned Hall
Don Gyorog, chairman of the mechanical engineering department, said KU was one of nine U.S. colleges offering an Intel-led robot from GM.
The Intelidex robot will be used with other robots and computers in a small laboratory assembly line. The assembly line is part of a program, initiated by Gyorog, to educate students about new manipulators and different products to be produced from the same assembly line.
Gyorog said the program included courses on industrial robotics and automotive manufacturing and electrical systems.
"We want to expose all students to the programming and application of robots in manufacturing,"
Gvorog said.
In 1985, after Gyorog submitted a proposal of the program to GM, the corporation awarded a $40,000 a year grant to support a laboratory to develop automotive systems and robotics.
The University also donated $13,000 a year toward the program.
"Each year there will be a major expansion in the lab due to the grant," he said.
used to buy an ASEA robot for the laboratory. This year some of the grant money will be used to purchase a visual system for the Intel-idex robot.
Gyorog proposed the program after visiting other universities with similar programs. Gyorog said the KU program was modeled after a multi-million dollar program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In 1986, the grant money was
Help is available for students in credit trouble
Bv PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
As checks bounce and debts climb, students with money-management problems can turn to credit counselors for help.
The KU office of financial aid and the Consumer Credit Counseling Services in Topeka and Kansas City, Mo., employ counselors to help people troubles. They provide budget counseling and debt management programs.
The financial aid office has counselors who help students who are running into debt decide how to spend their money. The counselors ask students to take a close look at where their money is going and to make more conscientious spending decisions.
The non-profit credit counseling service in Topeka is a division of the Topeka Housing Information Center. It is certified, along with 159 other offices, by the National Foundation for Consumer Credit.
Julie Kimbrough, credit counselor with the Topeka office, said the court ruled that she was not present.
help its clients avoid bankruptcy and enabled them to pay debts with dignity.
She said they looked at the client's total amount in debt and worked with lenders to establish a payment plan the client could handle.
The counselor sends a letter to each credit detailing the client's financial trouble, an effort that can help the client rebuild his or her credit standing.
If the client has money available, the credit counseling service tries to meet the client's needs.
Kimbrough said the service didn't handle an inordinate number of student cases. Most students who use the service are single parents.
If the client has no money for a payment program, Kimbrough might suggest that the person find a part-time job, cut down on entertainment expenses, or, for parents, use a less-expensive child-care service. If the client was up to the client, who pays a one-time $20 administrative fee.
es in here goes to a creditor," Kimbrough said.
Although the financial and office sponsors money-management workshops, few students take advantage of them, said Evy Gershon, assistant director of the office.
"After that, every dollar that com-
"It's sometimes hard for people to admit they have a problem with money management," Gershon said.
The next money-management workshop will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
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